Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan encountered Wang Dong by Sea God Lake just as Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire rampage erupted early, and he protected Wang Dong from her attack. He carried Wang Dong into the sky, leaving her shaken and newly drawn to him.

• Lin Yan saw Wang Dong sitting by Sea God Lake and avoided approaching her because he suspected Tang San's divine consciousness was hidden within her.
• Ma Xiaotao charged from the lake mist in a crazed rampage, and her Evil Fire burned Wang Dong as she tried to escape.
• Lin Yan stepped between Ma Xiaotao and Wang Dong, taking Ma Xiaotao's strike head-on to shield her.
• Lin Yan activated Flame Spirit Armor—Merge, lifted Wang Dong, and flew away with her on his Thunder Fire Wings.
• Wang Dong rested in Lin Yan's arms, remembering his rescue and feeling warmth, security, and an unfamiliar flutter in her heart.

Lin Yan subdued Ma Xiaotao after her Evil Fire rampage injured Wang Dong, then absorbed the fire and forced Ma Xiaotao to face the consequences. He left with her in chains after she tried to attack him again.

• Lin Yan sent the injured Wang Dong away on a Flash-Wing Firebird Flame Spirit as Ma Xiaotao lunged at him in her madness.
• Lin Yan trapped Ma Xiaotao with Flame Spirits and Silver Shuttles, then pinned her down with the Fire-Suppressing Spirit-Sealing Cauldron.
• Lin Yan struck Ma Xiaotao with an Emperor Flame Seed, which devoured her Phoenix Evil Fire and restored her senses.
• Ma Xiaotao dismissed the injury she had caused and insisted she would win in a fair fight, prompting Lin Yan to condemn her and demand she come with him to see Yan Shaozhe.
• Ma Xiaotao tried to attack after Lin Yan released her restraints, so he reignited the Emperor Flame Seed and bound her with a Crimson Chain.

Lin Yan subdued Ma Xiaotao after she nearly killed Wang Dong, then set out with Wang Dong to bring her to Yan Shaozhe. As they walked, Lin Yan explained his view of Soul Tools and reflected on his research, which he hoped to advance through Shrek.

• Lin Yan ignored Ma Xiaotao's struggles, retrieved Wang Dong, and helped her recover before asking if she could walk.
• Wang Dong thanked Lin Yan for saving her, then grew furious at Ma Xiaotao and demanded justice from Shrek.
• Lin Yan bound Ma Xiaotao with his Crimson Chain and led Wang Dong toward Yan Shaozhe.
• Wang Dong questioned why Lin Yan used Soul Tools, and he explained that he viewed them as tools for cultivation rather than external aids.
• Lin Yan considered his Soul Guidance Array research, his goal of creating formations that linked heaven and earth, and the possibility of pursuing that work through Shrek.

Lin Yan brought Ma Xiaotao to Yan Shaozhe after stopping her Evil Fire rampage and demanded an explanation. Yan Shaozhe discovered that Lin Yan had refined away her accumulated Evil Fire, while Lin Yan realized Ma Xiaotao might serve as a useful source of cultivation gains.

• Lin Yan brought the hooded, bound Ma Xiaotao into Yan Shaozhe's office and accused her of nearly killing someone.
• Ma Xiaotao attacked Lin Yan after he freed her, but Yan Shaozhe restrained her when Lin Yan warned he would intervene.
• Yan Shaozhe sensed that Ma Xiaotao's Evil Fire had vanished, and Lin Yan explained that he had refined it with his Emperor Flame Seed.
• Lin Yan recalled that refining Beast Fire produced a small amount of pure Soul Power, and considered using Ma Xiaotao as a cauldron because she rapidly accumulated Evil Fire.

Lin Yan explained the three paths Titled Douluo used to increase their Soul Power capacity, then agreed he could clear Ma Xiaotao’s accumulated Evil Fire but not eradicate it completely. After Wang Dong demanded compensation from Yan Shaozhe, Lin Yan left and made further help conditional on Ma Xiaotao stopping her hostility toward him.

• Yan Shaozhe was astonished that Lin Yan could sense the Martial Soul Origin and had developed a secret technique, and Lin Yan described the three paths for advancing beyond level 90.
• Lin Yan told Yan Shaozhe that he could clear the Evil Fire accumulated in Ma Xiaotao’s body but could not completely eradicate it.
• Lin Yan reminded Yan Shaozhe that Wang Dong was the victim, and Wang Dong demanded an explanation and threatened to summon her eldest and second fathers.
• Yan Shaozhe recognized Wang Dong as the Clear Sky Sect’s little princess and worried about the consequences of offending her.
• Lin Yan left, telling Yan Shaozhe to persuade Ma Xiaotao to stop treating him as an enemy before they continued discussing her Evil Fire.

Lin Yan returned to class after Zhou Yi’s punishment and declined the class monitor position, while Wang Dong appeared as Wang Dong'er. As the class headed to the Soul Fighting Zone to select a monitor, a golden streak rushed into Lin Yan’s arms.

• Lin Yan joked with Chen Beixuan and Ye Liangchen about what they should call him, and they laughed together in the dorm.
• Lin Yan went to breakfast with Chen Beixuan and Ye Liangchen before heading to Freshman Class One.
• Wang Dong'er entered the classroom, sat beside Lin Yan, and asked whether he had recognized her; Lin Yan said her hair and eye colors were distinctive.
• Wang Yan announced Zhou Yi’s punishment and took over as homeroom teacher, then asked the class to choose a monitor.
• Lin Yan declined the monitor position, and Wang Yan led the students to the Soul Fighting Zone for a selection by combat.
• As Lin Yan reached the classroom doorway, a streak of golden light rushed toward him and a slender figure fell into his arms.

Lin Yan reunited with Jiang Nannan after she became a Soul Ancestor, and the two shared an intimate moment while catching up. He promised to take her to the Far North later to find a suitable Spirit Beast for her next breakthrough.

• Jiang Nannan rushed into Lin Yan's arms in front of the students, drawing their attention and leaving Wang Dong'er feeling bitter.
• Wang Yan sent the crowd onward and teased Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan, who stayed behind together.
• Jiang Nannan told Lin Yan she had reached Rank 40 and learned of his arrival only the previous night, and he congratulated her.
• Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan kissed and recalled how they had met five years earlier, when he helped her seek treatment for her mother.
• Jiang Nannan asked Lin Yan what Spirit Beast to choose, and he said he had selected one in the Far North and would take her there later.

Lin Yan watched the Shrek students fight after parting from Jiang Nannan, while Wang Yan studied their Martial Souls. Xiao Xiao’s ability to use both of her compatible Martial Souls at once impressed Wang Yan, and the morning ended with Wang Dong’er and Xiao Xiao selected as class monitor and vice monitor.

• Jiang Nannan left for class after sharing another kiss with Lin Yan, who then headed to the Soul Fighting Zone.
• Lin Yan watched Wang Dong’er defeat her opponent as Wang Yan recorded observations about her Light Goddess Butterfly Martial Soul.
• Xiao Xiao used her Nine Phoenix Flute alongside her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron to defeat an opponent with a higher Soul Power rank, astonishing Wang Yan.
• Wang Dong’er and Xiao Xiao were chosen as Freshman Class One’s class monitor and vice monitor, while Lao Huo was not selected.
• Wang Dong’er noticed Jiang Nannan’s lingering fragrance on Lin Yan and silently suppressed her jealousy.
• Wang Yan reviewed the students’ combat weaknesses, and the morning’s activities concluded.

Lin Yan negotiated with Yan Shaozhe over the cost of suppressing Ma Xiaotao’s Evil Fire, securing support for a friend’s Spirit Ring trip and medicinal meals. He then asked for access to Shrek’s libraries and the Soul Guidance Department’s Soul Guidance Arrays, leaving Yan Shaozhe wary of the final demand.

• Ma Xiaotao came to find Lin Yan, and he went with her to meet Yan Shaozhe.
• Lin Yan warned Yan Shaozhe that using the Emperor Flame Seed Splitting Technique would harm his Martial Soul Origin and slow its evolution unless his conditions were met, though he had already eliminated those drawbacks.
• Lin Yan asked Yan Shaozhe to arrange a Soul Douluo to accompany his rank-forty friend to the Far North, and Yan Shaozhe agreed.
• Lin Yan gave Yan Shaozhe medicinal meal recipes and secured payment for his food and medicinal expenses while he remained in the Outer Courtyard.
• Lin Yan requested reading access to the inner and Outer Courtyard Library Pavilions and access to all the Soul Guidance Arrays in the Soul Guidance Department, making Yan Shaozhe furrow his brows.

Lin Yan negotiated with Yan Shaozhe for access to Shrek's libraries and Soul Guidance formations in exchange for helping Ma Xiaotao suppress her Evil Fire. Afterward, Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan spent a tender evening together, ending at Sea God Lake as he reflected on their five years of companionship.

• Lin Yan insisted that Yan Shaozhe try to secure him access to the Inner Court Library and the Soul Guidance Department's formations, while agreeing to help Ma Xiaotao for three years if the request failed.
• Yan Shaozhe promised to fight for Lin Yan's condition and allowed him to study independently if he earned full marks on future assessments.
• Lin Yan met Jiang Nannan and explored Shrek City with her, sharing pastries and enjoying their time together.
• Lin Yan noticed Xu Sanshi walking with an elegant woman but set the sight aside and continued his evening with Jiang Nannan.
• Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan sat together beside Sea God Lake, where he reflected on the five years of gentle companionship they had shared.

Lin Yan revealed his self-taught Soul Tool skills to Qian Duoduo, prompting the Soul Guidance Department vice dean to recruit him and clash with Yan Shaozhe over his future. Their argument revealed that the Sun Moon Empire had developed a war Soul Tool called a Mecha, leaving Lin Yan wondering whether his actions had changed history.

• Qian Duoduo visited Lin Yan to ask about his interest in Soul Tools, and Lin Yan showed him the Crimson Flame Chain he had made.
• Qian Duoduo examined the chain's Level-Five Soul Guidance Arrays and was stunned when Lin Yan said he had taught himself.
• Qian Duoduo urged Lin Yan to join the Soul Guidance Department and offered him twice what Yan Shaozhe could provide.
• Yan Shaozhe arrived and argued with Qian Duoduo over whether Lin Yan should join the Spirit Department or the Soul Guidance Department.
• Qian Duoduo warned that the Sun Moon Empire had developed a war Soul Tool called a Mecha, and Lin Yan wondered whether he had caused this change to history.

Lin Yan interrupted Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo’s argument over which department he should join, then asked Qian Duoduo about the Sun Moon Empire’s secret Mecha project. At the Sea God Pavilion, Mu En tested Lin Yan’s reason for wanting access to the library and asked to experience his Intent, leaving Lin Yan to reveal his Fire Intent.

• Lin Yan stopped Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo from arguing over his future department and asked Qian Duoduo what he knew about the Sun Moon Empire’s Mecha project.
• Qian Duoduo said the Mecha was a piloted large Soul Tool proposed by someone named Luo Ye, prompting Lin Yan to consider investigating the Sun Moon Empire.
• Yan Shaozhe told Lin Yan that Mu En’s approval would secure his Inner Court Library reading privileges, and led him to the Sea God Pavilion.
• Lin Yan told Mu En that he wanted access to the Library Pavilion to learn, and Mu En asked him to demonstrate his Intent.
• Lin Yan released his nine-colored Fire Intent throughout the hall, and golden light burst from Mu En.

Lin Yan clashed intents with Mu En and answered three questions about Shrek, earning Mu En’s approval and a promise of support. Mu En gave Lin Yan seventy-thousand-year Whale Rubber, and Lin Yan left the Sea God Pavilion with Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo assured that Mu En had agreed to help.

• Lin Yan and Mu En’s intents clashed, allowing each to perceive the other’s understanding of fire and light.
• Mu En asked whether Lin Yan would harm Shrek or bring calamity upon the continent, and Lin Yan firmly answered no to both.
• Mu En asked what Shrek was truly like, and Lin Yan called it “Glittering gold outside, rotten cotton within.”
• Mu En praised Lin Yan’s clear judgment, promised to support him if he faced trouble, and gave him Whale Rubber from a seventy-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca.
• Lin Yan left the Sea God Pavilion and told Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo that Mu En had agreed; Yan Shaozhe was delighted that Mu En had approved his disciple.

Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan set out for the Far North with Zhang Lexuan as their escort, while Lin Yan continued refining his Body Forging Art through daily practice. The group reached the snowy outskirts of the Far North, where their soul-beast hunt awaited.

• Lin Yan practiced the Twelve Forms of Xingyi, circulating his blood and qi and digesting his medicinal meal.
• Lin Yan reviewed the development of his Body Forging Art, from the Hundred Arts Fist to its beast-form version.
• Lin Yan met Jiang Nannan and Zhang Lexuan at Shrek Square and learned Zhang Lexuan would accompany them.
• Lin Yan, Jiang Nannan, and Zhang Lexuan left Shrek and traveled north through the Heaven Dou Empire.
• After resting in a border city, the group entered the snowy outskirts of the Far North.

Lin Yan explained his theory that Jiang Nannan’s Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul had dormant mutation potential and that her Spirit Rings could guide it toward a spatial path. After hearing the theory, Zhang Lexuan questioned whether Xiao Wu’s path had been a better choice, then realized Lin Yan’s hypothesis could mean the legendary Soft Bone Douluo had chosen incorrectly.

• Lin Yan led Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan across the Far North toward a Frost Shadow Void Rabbit with space and ice attributes.
• Lin Yan explained his theory that high-Innate-Soul-Power Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Souls underwent a dormant, nondirectional mutation that could be restarted by Spirit Rings sharing a common direction.
• Lin Yan said he had chosen the spatial path for Jiang Nannan because her Martial Soul had already shown signs of developing space-based abilities.
• Zhang Lexuan asked why Lin Yan had not followed the soul-skill combination of Xiao Wu, the Soft Bone Douluo who became a god ten thousand years earlier.
• Jiang Nannan proudly explained Lin Yan’s hypothesis to Zhang Lexuan, who realized it could imply that the Soft Bone Douluo had taken the wrong path.

Lin Yan, Zhang Lexuan, and Jiang Nannan searched the Far North for a suitable Frost Shadow Void Rabbit for Jiang Nannan’s soul ring. After finding several that were too young, they spotted a roughly nine-thousand-year-old rabbit, and Zhang Lexuan attacked as it tried to escape.

• Lin Yan led Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan into the Far North, where they searched for Frost Shadow Void Rabbits while he helped Jiang Nannan endure the cold.
• The three searched all day and found a rabbit near their ice cave, but Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan judged it too young to suit Jiang Nannan.
• Over the next five days, the group found two more Frost Shadow Void Rabbits, but neither was old enough, and Jiang Nannan’s condition worsened in the cold.
• Lin Yan spotted a roughly nine-thousand-year-old Frost Shadow Void Rabbit eating a blue flower in an Ice Stone Forest, and Zhang Lexuan charged at it.
• The rabbit vanished through a spatial ripple and reappeared atop an ice pillar hundreds of meters away.

Zhang Lexuan helped Jiang Nannan defeat a Frost Shadow Void Rabbit so Jiang Nannan could absorb its Spirit Ring, triggering a Martial Soul evolution into the Silver Void Dragon Rabbit. As they headed out of the Far North, an enraged voice ordered the region sealed, and Lin Yan urged the others to flee immediately.

• Zhang Lexuan restrained the Frost Shadow Void Rabbit and struck it down, allowing Jiang Nannan to deliver the finishing blow.
• Lin Yan guided Jiang Nannan through absorbing the beast's Spirit Ring while he and Zhang Lexuan guarded her.
• Jiang Nannan's Martial Soul evolved into the Silver Void Dragon Rabbit, and Lin Yan named it.
• The three set out toward the edge of the Far North, but a pillar of green light and furious voices erupted from the Core Zone.
• Lin Yan recognized the voices as belonging to the Ice and Snow Emperors, grabbed Jiang Nannan's hand, and told her and Zhang Lexuan to leave the Far North at once.

Lin Yan, Zhang Lexuan, and Jiang Nannan fled through the Far North, fighting off soul beasts as a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion pursued them. With the scorpion about to catch up, Zhang Lexuan hurled Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan ahead and prepared to hold it off alone.

• Lin Yan, Zhang Lexuan, and Jiang Nannan raced south through the Far North as the Snow Empress's lockdown stirred the soul beasts into a frenzy.
• A fifty-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon blocked their route, and Zhang Lexuan defeated it with her Moon Lock, Moon Fall, and Moon Punishment soul skills.
• The Titan Snow Demon's roar drew a hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion, forcing Zhang Lexuan to flee with Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan.
• Ten-thousand-year soul beasts blocked their way, so Zhang Lexuan changed direction while the Ice Jade Scorpion rapidly gained on them.
• Zhang Lexuan hurled Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan forward, then activated all eight of her Spirit Rings to face the Ice Jade Scorpion alone.

Lin Yan and Zhang Lexuan fought the hundred-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion, but it escaped after its King called it back, leaving Zhang Lexuan gravely injured. Elsewhere, Jing Hongchen confronted Luo Ye, who used his mysterious Treasure Mirror to confirm a route out of the Far North.

• Zhang Lexuan used Blood Moon Eclipse and Blood Moon as Prison against the Ice Jade Scorpion while Lin Yan prepared a counterattack.
• Lin Yan used the Prajna Heart Lamp’s Fire of Wisdom to attack the Ice Jade Scorpion’s consciousness, but its King’s call restored its awareness.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion broke free with Ice Explosion, and Zhang Lexuan took the blast while shielding Lin Yan.
• The Ice Jade Scorpion fled into the snowfield, and Lin Yan carried the unconscious Zhang Lexuan away with Jiang Nannan as other soul beasts continued pursuing them.
• Jing Hongchen demanded to know what Luo Ye had done to anger the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, but Luo Ye refused to explain.
• Luo Ye consulted his Treasure Mirror, which gave him directions for leaving the Far North when an ice-blue flame appeared in the sky.

Lin Yan escaped into an ice crevasse with Jiang Nannan and the gravely injured Zhang Lexuan, then used his Life Spirit Fire to remove the Ultimate Ice from Zhang Lexuan's body. Zhang Lexuan's condition stabilized, and she began to wake as Lin Yan explained that her other injuries would need treatment back at Shrek Academy.

• Lin Yan led Jiang Nannan and unconscious Zhang Lexuan into a deep ice crevasse to escape the pursuing Soul Beasts.
• Lin Yan and Jiang Nannan traveled through the underground passages until the Soul Beast roars faded, then Lin Yan examined Zhang Lexuan's severe injuries.
• Lin Yan determined that Ultimate Ice had invaded Zhang Lexuan's body, while Jiang Nannan blamed herself for the injuries.
• Lin Yan used jade-green Life Spirit Fire needles to clear the cold energy from Zhang Lexuan and stabilize her condition.
• Lin Yan told Jiang Nannan that Zhang Lexuan would need further treatment at the academy, and Zhang Lexuan began to open her eyes.